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Personal info

Full name
LONG, Grover M
Date of birth
1925
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Kansas
Hometown
Los Angeles, California

Military service

Service number
T-002599
Rank
Flight Officer
Function
Navigator
Unit
753rd Bombardment Squadron,
458th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
30 October 1944
Place of death
Deutsch Evren, near Lüneburg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
C 18 19

Immediate family

Members
Loel E. Long (father)
Ruth E. Long (mother)
M. Lorenz Long (brother)
Evalyn (Ferguson) Long (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
42-100431
Data
Type: B-24J
Nickname: Bomb-Ah-Dear
Destination: Marshalling yards, Harburg, Germany
MACR: 10166

More information

Grover Long was a graduate of Chaffey high school and was attending Chaffey college when he enlisted in the Army Air forces April 17, 1943. He took his pre-flight training at Santa Ana, was awarded his wings at Deming, N.M., and received combat training at March field prior to assignment to overseas service. He was a B-24 Liberator bombardier-navigator and had been stationed at a bomber base in England since last July. He was a member of the First Christian church.

He completed bombardier training at Deming, NM class 44-02.
This crew was assigned on August 15, 1944. Between the time they were assigned and the time they were shot down they flew eight missions. Hit by Flak, plane was in a dive en broken into.
F/O Grover M. Long was first buried at the cemetery of Deutsch Evern (Westside).

Source of information: Michel Beckers/Darin Scorza-www.458bg.com, Astrid van Erp, www.newspapers.com - The San Bernardino County Sum, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census
Photo source: Jac Engels, www.ancestry.com - Chaffey High School Yearbook 1942, Michel Beckers/Mrs. Katherine Pratt, Jaap Vermeer - The Pomona Progress Bulletin 18 December 1944